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As Delivering for America proceeds, bipartisan lawmakers create caucus focused on improving postal operations - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/federal-news/2025/09/delivering-america-proceeds-bipartisan-lawmakers-create-caucus-focused-improving-postal-operations/408239/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Mudhoney:
🎵 Flush the Fascists
#Mudhoney
https://mudhoney.bandcamp.com/track/flush-the-fascists
https://open.spotify.com/track/77LpWp3bm2qGYPZoWMggYS

Minimizing Surrogate Losses for Decision-Focused Learning using Differentiable Optimization
Jayanta Mandi, Ali \.Irfan Mahmuto\u{g}ullar{\i}, Senne Berden, Tias Guns
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11365

Minimizing Surrogate Losses for Decision-Focused Learning using Differentiable Optimization
Decision-focused learning (DFL) trains a machine learning (ML) model to predict parameters of an optimization problem, to directly minimize decision regret, i.e., maximize decision quality. Gradient-based DFL requires computing the derivative of the solution to the optimization problem with respect to the predicted parameters. However, for many optimization problems, such as linear programs (LPs), the gradient of the regret with respect to the predicted parameters is zero almost everywhere. Exi…

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/fascist-fight-club

If you don’t want to be compared to Nazis and called fascists, here’s a simple rule of thumb:
STOP COMMITTING GENOCIDE, YOU SICK FUCKS. https://mastodon.social/@8124/115215365985382080

How about having a new /.aibots.txt (or maybe just /.ai.txt)?
All AI-focused crawlers expected to read it.
Start off with the exact same syntax as /.robots.txt - then there’s scope for adding genAI-specific stuff like iP claims and optimized paths and so on.
#genAI

Did you know the #word #fascist originates from Bavaria (Germany).
It evolved from the Bavarian words "Vaschissna" [M. vaʃˈɪsnɑː] or "Vaschissne" [F. vˈaʃɪsnə]
It translates to the standard German words "Verschissener" [M. fɛɾʃˈɪsən˜] / "Verschissen…

Jack Dorsey invests $10M in "and Other Stuff", a nonprofit focused on funding open-source projects and tools built on open protocols like Nostr and ActivityPub (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/jack

Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit focused on open-source social media | TechCrunch
Jack Dorsey backs nonprofit 'and Other Stuff' with $10M to build open social technology.

„“I think [Bluesky CEO] Jay [Graber] is great. I think the team is great,” Dorsey told Henshaw-Plath, “but the structure is what I disagree with…I want to push the energy in a different direction, which is more like Bitcoin, which is completely open and not owned by anyone from a protocol layer.“
Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit focused on open-source social media | TechCrunch